Word: mediterraneanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME here uses advisedly a word offensive to Italians and other persons of Mediterranean origin. In the average U. S. vocabulary the word conveniently connotes foreigners of suspicious, possibly vicious character. (In distinction, "wop" seems to mean a more goodnatured individual.) Used without respect to nationality, let "dagoes" not unduly offend any national sensibilities.-ED. *The curious, eminently readable, 89-year-old Nassau Guardian, semiweekly (circulation 3,000), composed on old tombstones and jointly owned by Miss Mary Moseley and Knowlton Lyman ("Junior") Ames of Chicago, assistant to Col. William Franklin Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News...
Sardinia, due south of Corsica, is a large island in the Mediterranean belonging to Italy. But Sardinians remember other allegiances-once they were Moorish, once Spanish, once even Austrian. Clannish, independent, like all islanders they dislike and distrust dwellers on the mainland. Authoress Posse-Brazdova tells a grim tale of a Sardinian private during the War who. told that he could not take to the rear a prisoner he had captured, made sure of him by biting through the artery in his neck, guzzling his blood in great gulps. The Sassari Brigade (Sardinian) was the only one that...
...Kent coast, in 4 days, 7 hr. It was an amazing exhibition of stamina. Flying a light Puss Moth named The Desert Cloud she landed only four times, caught three naps, the longest being two hours. She battled with fog over the English Channel, a near-gale over the Mediterranean, sandstorms over the Sahara, torrential rains in Portugese West Africa. At Benguela she was forced down by low oil pressure into a "sea of mud." With improvised tools she made repairs, flew on, thought to powder her nose while crossing Table Mountain at Cape Town. Mrs. Mollison...
...pitched in and for six years worked to pay off his debts. He was only half successful, but later royalties wiped out the remainder. In the last year of his life. Scott was given a vessel by the British Government in which to seek health cruising the Mediterranean. Soon he gave it up, traveled across Europe to die at 61 in Abbotsford, 100 years ago last week...
...course toward Cape Finisterre by the tanker Winnebago, then 400 mi. from Europe by the S. S. France. And then it was seen no more. On the night that The American Nurse was supposed to have landed in Rome, a total eclipse of the moon darkened the Mediterranean...